Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 4th October 2020 The week after the busy week I have just had is always a difficult one due to my disability. Plenty of pain and a lack of sleep are what I have until I get a chance to rest properly. Picking up my granddaughter from school three times …
8 signs that God is trying to get your attention
Last Friday I blogged on 11 ways to push God away[1]. For those who have managed to do this, here are 7 ways God is trying to get your attention. When we go our own way and ignore God's direction it often goes wrong until we ask for something good to come out from our …
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Extreme male brain?
I first heard about autism as applied to me at the age of 52 from a psychologist I was visiting. I was being looked at for a long standing anger problem and was told that my behaviour both what I described of my life and in the interview was consistent with having Asperger's Syndrome. This …
Is our focus on God?
Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 27th September 2020 The oldest known photograph of Holy Trinity, Huddersfield A week away for us to celebrate my wife's birthday. Little did we know how things would turn out. The blogs I published in the week were pre-written and schedulrd to publish on the Wednesday and Friday so as not …
Eleven ways to push God away
Sins are pushing ourselves away from God You know that sermon, the ones where we are asked, "Do you want more of God?" I would reply, "Yes, I want more of God." If people who wanted more of God were to be asked to come forward for prayer, I may well be amongst them. In …
Other people: Othering people
"People from other countries are not like us," starts so many racist statements. That is the bigger part of the problem. Another part is double empathy, we judge them because they do things differently to us. How desperate do you need to be to trust yourself to the open seas in a rubber boat? Seeking …
We all have an insight that can help someone else
Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 20th September, 2020 Developments this week:The government has introduced the further restrictions to prevent the second wave of Covid-19 from getting out of hand, which is good. The restriction is simple which is good. The restriction come with all sorts of exceptions which will make it difficult to enforce, which …
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Psalms of ascent: What a long strange trip it’s been*
Embrace the disillusionment and rant on. Reading the songs of ascent in sequence as a journey that started with a rant and moved through disillusionment into praise, then back into disillusionment and back into praise again. If you think you know how spiritual journeys are supposed to go then either these psalms have got it …
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The judgement of God
Reconciling God's judgement and God's grace God's judgement means that sin will not go unpunished.God's grace means that we do not get what we deserve.God's love means that we are all cared for. How do we reconcile these things? God’s judgement. God's judgement has traditionally been seen in terms of Hell fire, I have no …
Real power comes from God
Reboot and rebuild - Resist and persist Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 13th September 2020 As far as the Pape household are concerned as our Granddaughter has started school this week I have taken on a new role, of twice a week child collector, taking over from being the full day child minder on Mondays …
